diff --git a/mail/exim/Makefile b/mail/exim/Makefile
index 8fa2147114..714fe2d8df 100644
--- a/mail/exim/Makefile
+++ b/mail/exim/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=exim
-PKG_VERSION:=4.97.1
+PKG_VERSION:=4.98
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
-PKG_HASH:=bd782057509a793593508528590626d185ea160ce32cb34beda262e99cefdfa9
+PKG_HASH:=0ebc108a779f9293ba4b423c20818f9a3db79b60286d96abc6ba6b85a15852f7
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
 
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0-or-later
diff --git a/mail/exim/patches/030-openssl-deprecated.patch b/mail/exim/patches/030-openssl-deprecated.patch
index b3ecb56626..1fb90087b6 100644
--- a/mail/exim/patches/030-openssl-deprecated.patch
+++ b/mail/exim/patches/030-openssl-deprecated.patch
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
  #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ECDH
  # include <openssl/ec.h>
  #endif
-@@ -944,8 +947,9 @@ pkey = EVP_RSA_gen(2048);
+@@ -947,8 +950,9 @@ pkey = EVP_RSA_gen(2048);
  
  X509_set_version(x509, 2);				/* N+1 - version 3 */
  ASN1_INTEGER_set(X509_get_serialNumber(x509), 1);
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
  X509_set_pubkey(x509, pkey);
  
  name = X509_get_subject_name(x509);
-@@ -4979,8 +4983,8 @@ return string_fmt_append(g,
+@@ -4972,8 +4976,8 @@ return string_fmt_append(g,
      "                          Runtime: %s\n"
      "                                 : %s\n",
  	     OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT,
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
    /* third line is 38 characters for the %s and the line is 73 chars long;
    the OpenSSL output includes a "built on: " prefix already. */
  }
-@@ -5022,8 +5026,6 @@ if (pidnow != pidlast)
+@@ -5015,8 +5019,6 @@ if (pidnow != pidlast)
    is unique for each thread", this doesn't apparently apply across processes,
    so our own warning from vaguely_random_number_fallback() applies here too.
    Fix per PostgreSQL. */
diff --git a/mail/exim/patches/100-localscan_dlopen.patch b/mail/exim/patches/100-localscan_dlopen.patch
index 69f62ed38e..cdf3e3eacd 100644
--- a/mail/exim/patches/100-localscan_dlopen.patch
+++ b/mail/exim/patches/100-localscan_dlopen.patch
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Last-Update: 2021-07-28
 
 --- a/src/EDITME
 +++ b/src/EDITME
-@@ -904,6 +904,21 @@ HEADERS_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1"
+@@ -913,6 +913,21 @@ HEADERS_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1"
  
  
  #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Last-Update: 2021-07-28
  /* End of local_scan.h */
 --- a/src/readconf.c
 +++ b/src/readconf.c
-@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ static optionlist optionlist_config[] =
+@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ static optionlist optionlist_config[] =
    { "local_from_prefix",        opt_stringptr,   {&local_from_prefix} },
    { "local_from_suffix",        opt_stringptr,   {&local_from_suffix} },
    { "local_interfaces",         opt_stringptr,   {&local_interfaces} },
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Last-Update: 2021-07-28
  #endif
 --- a/src/string.c
 +++ b/src/string.c
-@@ -453,6 +453,7 @@ return ss;
+@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ return ss;
  
  #if (defined(HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN) || defined(EXPAND_DLFUNC)) \
  	&& !defined(MACRO_PREDEF) && !defined(COMPILE_UTILITY)
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Last-Update: 2021-07-28
  /*************************************************
  *            Copy and save string                *
  *************************************************/
-@@ -498,6 +499,7 @@ string_copyn_function(const uschar * s,
+@@ -500,6 +501,7 @@ string_copyn_function(const uschar * s,
  {
  return string_copyn(s, n);
  }
diff --git a/mail/exim/patches/200-fix-build.patch b/mail/exim/patches/200-fix-build.patch
index e5c63c32d8..25a5298c71 100644
--- a/mail/exim/patches/200-fix-build.patch
+++ b/mail/exim/patches/200-fix-build.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- a/src/exim.c
 +++ b/src/exim.c
-@@ -642,13 +642,15 @@ exim_nullstd(void)
+@@ -647,13 +647,15 @@ exim_nullstd(void)
  {
  int devnull = -1;
  struct stat statbuf;
diff --git a/mail/exim/patches/300-avoid-time-printf.patch b/mail/exim/patches/300-avoid-time-printf.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f4f1c88ec0..0000000000
--- a/mail/exim/patches/300-avoid-time-printf.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/src/transports/smtp.c
-+++ b/src/transports/smtp.c
-@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ if (  sx->early_pipe_active
-     if (!(er = dbfn_read_enforce_length(dbm_file, ehlo_resp_key, sizeof(dbdata_ehlo_resp))))
-       debug_printf("no ehlo-resp record!\n");
-     else
--      debug_printf("ehlo-resp record is %d seconds old\n", time(NULL) - er->time_stamp);
-+      debug_printf("ehlo-resp record is %.0f seconds old\n", difftime(time(NULL), er->time_stamp));
-     }
- 
-   dbfn_delete(dbm_file, ehlo_resp_key);